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The In Between: A Novel
In this wildly imaginative novel for fans of
Dark Matter
and
Ready Player One
, listeners are transported to the near future, and when a young boy attempting to teleport gets lost in transit, his parents will do whatever it takes to find him in “the in between.”
The year is 2047, and teleportation is the cutting-edge transportation method of choice - Teleportation Services International (TSI) operates facilities in all of the world's major cities. When Lillian, a TSI employee, wins a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation, she knows it's just a photo op for the tech giant, but she takes the opportunity and books a trip to Tokyo with her husband Jackson and their six-year-old son Cole. But before they arrive, tragedy strikes: Cole disappears in transit.
Lillian and Jackson take very different paths to cope: Lillian wants justice for her son's death and attempts to find those responsible by conducting a covert investigation from within TSI. Jackson, meanwhile, is convinced that Cole is still alive somewhere in “the in between” and teleports back and forth from Japan, over and over again, to find him.
Ultimately, this explosive and thought-provoking story asks ambitious questions about technology, power, and our rapidly changing world.
The year is 2047, and teleportation is the cutting-edge transportation method of choice - Teleportation Services International (TSI) operates facilities in all of the world's major cities. When Lillian, a TSI employee, wins a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation, she knows it's just a photo op for the tech giant, but she takes the opportunity and books a trip to Tokyo with her husband Jackson and their six-year-old son Cole. But before they arrive, tragedy strikes: Cole disappears in transit.
Lillian and Jackson take very different paths to cope: Lillian wants justice for her son's death and attempts to find those responsible by conducting a covert investigation from within TSI. Jackson, meanwhile, is convinced that Cole is still alive somewhere in “the in between” and teleports back and forth from Japan, over and over again, to find him.
Ultimately, this explosive and thought-provoking story asks ambitious questions about technology, power, and our rapidly changing world.
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Michael Landweber
5 books25 followersI was born in Madison, WI. I have sort of learned and mostly forgotten four languages: Hebrew, Spanish, Japanese and Thai. I am allergic to cumin. The pinnacle of my journalism career was following President Clinton around while he jogged. My short stories have appeared in some really cool literary magazines online and in print (and you can see a full list of them at my website). I have Masters degrees in Southeast Asian Studies and Public Policy. I have a soft spot for movies about talking animals. I am very unlikely to survive the zombie apocalypse. I have written four novels. I have worked for government bureaucracies, large and small. I mainly listen to alternative music, but my favorite song might be Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield. I live and write in Washington, DC.
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May 15, 2020
The In Between by Michael Landweber is a futuristic novel about teleportation, but I found it eerily similar to what is going on in the world right now.
This is an Audible Original, and I really enjoyed the narrators, Brittany Pressley and Mark Boyett. Going into the book I already knew I liked Pressley, so it was just icing on the cake when I loved Boyett's narration just as much. The book switches back and forth between the viewpoints of Lillian and her husband Jackson, and I loved that because it kept things interesting. I also enjoyed both of them as characters, although I liked Jackson just a bit more at times since he was immediately trying to do what he could to find Cole whereas Lillian just seemed a bit more defeated.
I'm not a huge reader of science fiction but I am so glad I got to listen to this book. There was just something about it that completely fascinated me, and I enjoyed the teleportation aspect quite a bit. I haven't really read any books that have it as a theme and I thought it was very unique. I also didn't find this book near as confusing as Dark Matter was (although I did love that book too). It was pretty easy to understand even though it was heavy on the technology aspect at times, but not as much as I thought it would be.
The In Between was also a surprisingly emotional read. Lillian and Jackson are dealing with so many things from their past, then when their son goes missing it pulls them to pieces even more. I loved everything about this book, the characters, the plot, the narration; it was all just such a great experience. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes teleportation as a theme, or is a fan of sci-fi in general. And considering it talks about a flu and quarantine, readers will most likely find it the tiniest bit relatable to current times as well.
Thank you to Audible for providing me with an advance review copy of this audiobook! All opinions and thoughts are my own.
This is an Audible Original, and I really enjoyed the narrators, Brittany Pressley and Mark Boyett. Going into the book I already knew I liked Pressley, so it was just icing on the cake when I loved Boyett's narration just as much. The book switches back and forth between the viewpoints of Lillian and her husband Jackson, and I loved that because it kept things interesting. I also enjoyed both of them as characters, although I liked Jackson just a bit more at times since he was immediately trying to do what he could to find Cole whereas Lillian just seemed a bit more defeated.
I'm not a huge reader of science fiction but I am so glad I got to listen to this book. There was just something about it that completely fascinated me, and I enjoyed the teleportation aspect quite a bit. I haven't really read any books that have it as a theme and I thought it was very unique. I also didn't find this book near as confusing as Dark Matter was (although I did love that book too). It was pretty easy to understand even though it was heavy on the technology aspect at times, but not as much as I thought it would be.
The In Between was also a surprisingly emotional read. Lillian and Jackson are dealing with so many things from their past, then when their son goes missing it pulls them to pieces even more. I loved everything about this book, the characters, the plot, the narration; it was all just such a great experience. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes teleportation as a theme, or is a fan of sci-fi in general. And considering it talks about a flu and quarantine, readers will most likely find it the tiniest bit relatable to current times as well.
Thank you to Audible for providing me with an advance review copy of this audiobook! All opinions and thoughts are my own.
March 17, 2020
★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader where the author also participated in a Q&A with me.
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A couple of years ago, when mystery writer Brad Parks wrote his first stand-alone thriller, in more than a couple of interviews I heard/read him talk about the struggle getting going. A friend gave him some advice to "write the book that scares you," which would likely scare his readers. He ended up deciding that as a parent, the thing that scared him the most was something involving trauma to one of his kids. Which resulted in at least two different novels ( Say Nothing and Closer than You Know ), both of which provided me with a level of fear I don't usually get from thrillers. I couldn't stop thinking about that anecdote and those two books while I listened to this, did someone give Landweber similar advice?
We start off meeting Lillian, who works in the PR department of Teleportation Services International. She's taking her son's class on a tour of TSI—something she and his teacher had arranged to help him deal with his anxiety about their upcoming trip via Teleportation. Cole is shy, nervous, and not really assured by this exercise—although the rest of his class has a blast (and it sounded pretty fun to me, too).
Then we meet her husband, Jackson. Jackson is one of the few drivers around in 2047—his clientele is primarily made up of the elderly who won't trust self-driving cars (and, yeah, it occurred to me that I'd be one of his client base on both of those counts) and those whose mental health or anxiety issues won't allow them to trust the cars, either. He augments this income by teaching super-rich teens how to drive the smattering of sports cars still around so they can go on joyrides.
TSI gives one employee's family a month a free week's vacation to anywhere in the world—and then milks their experience for publicity. They've picked Tokyo—and none of the family have ever teleported before. This will be a new experience for them all. Lillian steps through the portal in Omaha and stumbles out in Tokyo (the first trip is typically difficult on the destination side). There's a strange delay that worries her, but before long, Jackson comes out in worse shape than her. But where's Cole?
No one has an answer. Cole is missing and no one has an explanation. No one can even begin to hazard a guess about what happened.
Not at all surprisingly, Lillian and Jackson are devastated. Heartbroken. Inconsolable. And their individual reactions are so different that they can't even be there for each other in this time.
Lillian, whose own childhood was marked by tragedy, directs her grief into work. If she can be busy, she can cope. Quickly, her energies are directed into investigating (on her own) what happened that day, and what can be done to prevent it from happening again—and maybe finding a little vengeance along the way.
Jackson's reaction is two-fold. First, he's an alcoholic who hasn't taken a drink in six years. He's not in recovery in any sense, he just stopped drinking to be a father. With Cole gone, he returns to the bottle—any bottle. Before taking that first drink—and after it—his question was, "My son is missing, why isn't anyone looking for him?" For Jackson, Cole isn't dead, he's lost. Jackson knows—he can't convince anyone, but he knows—that he saw something—some place?—in between Omaha and Tokyo. He spends his days going back and forth between the two cities, trying to find that In Between again, before crawling back into a bottle.
They haven't just lost their son, they've lost each other. The love is still there. But they just don't understand the other's reaction. She can't cope with his drinking or his denial. He can't understand why she's given up on Cole. While he hunts for Cole and she hunts for an explanation, they're both burdened, distracted and shaped by this other pain. It is heartbreaking to watch their marriage crumble—as with the Parks thrillers, what happens to Cole is terrifying to this parent. But that feeling was frequently overshadowed by my reaction to his parent's relationship.
Now that I've gone on longer than I intended to about the plot (not that I'm cutting any of it), let's talk about the setting. This is not quite a post-apocalyptic world, but it's one where the apocalypse could be just around the corner. Environmental changes have impacted coastal cities around the world—many of what we know as coastal cities no longer exist. We all know that the Midwest gets hit by huge storms throughout the year, their frequency and intensity have grown. There are changes to transportation (air travel as well as the automobile changes mentioned above) in efforts to reduce pollution. New--and deadly--flu strains crop up with a regularity that makes them seem routine, and everyone knows how to react when one comes along.
There's a lot that could be said about the government (governments?) in this future. Not that Landweber talks about politics at all—but there's a tremendous lack of civil liberties on the one hand, and yet a very laissez-faire stance when it comes to TSI (at least as evidenced by TSI who really only seem to care about customer perception, not any kind of reulatory oversight). There's a benevolent totalitarianism at work when it comes to the storms (and reactions to them) in Nebraska, as well as the medical response to new flu strains.
I want to stress here that these environmental and health elements are just parts of the story, and the government observations are only my impressions, and nothing I could really provide footnotes about. Landweber doesn't take the opportunity to get on a soapbox about any of it, they're just part of the world he's describing. Much in the same way that someone writing a book set in 2020 would talk about current cultural trends, technologies or current events. He doesn't indulge in any real explanation of his world-building, there are no big info dumps—it's all just the setting.
This is an Audible Original—and I should talk about the audio aspect of this. It's a gripping listen and wonderfully performed. As you may have guessed Brittany Pressley narrates the chapters from Lillian's point of view, and Mark Boyett takes Jackson's. I don't think I'd heard anything by either of them before—but I'll keep my eyes peeled for their names when I browse for audiobooks in the future. They truly did wonderful jobs. They got the emotion of the moment, the tension—and occasional moments of fun, joy, or relief—as well as giving a real sense of the characters. It didn't happen often, but even when a character usually only seen in a Lillian chapter showed up in a Jackson, you could recognize them (and vice versa)—which was nice. Landweber wrote a great story but Boyett and Pressley brought it to life.
The last time I listened to an Audible Original, I had trouble with a couple of the SF-y terms used—mostly because I couldn't be sure exactly what the narrator was saying (e.g., was that a "d" or a "b"—or a "g"—in the middle of that word?) It wasn't that I couldn't understand the narrator, they were just terms the author invented that was hard to get my head around. Landweber didn't do any of that, which was a relief—although there were a couple of Japanese names I wouldn't be able to repeat (in print or voice), but I knew what Pressley and Boyett were saying.
Another pair of books that came to mind while I was listening to this were Mike Chen's novels. Like Chen, Landweber creates a wonderful Science Fiction world, and then tells a gripping family drama. Yes, the science fiction elements are there—and are incredibly well-executed—but the heart of this novel is about parenting, marriage, love. Fans of Chen would do well to check this book out. Fans of this book should give Chen a chance.
I read and enjoyed Landweber's last novel, Thursday, 1:17 PM , but this is a much better showcase for his talents (not to knock his earlier work). There's so much to commend about this Audiobook that I have only begun to scratch the surface (truly, I can think of a half-dozen characters I should've profiled*, a couple of themes I could have talked about, and other plotlines I should have addressed). There's something for everyone in this book—an element of a thriller, some great SF Technology, some conspiracy elements, the environmental setting, some media commentary, some Big Business critique, a lot of focus on people with anxiety issues and/or mental health diagnosis, ethical quandaries, parent/child stories, and a touching love story, too.
* There's a hacker character that I'm going to kick myself for not talking about, for example. He's one of the most entertaining characters I've encountered this year—Top 3 for 2020.
Get this into your ears, folks, you won't regret it—you may not like it as much as I did, but I can't imagine you won't like it.
Disclaimer: I received this audiobook from Audible in exchange for this post and my honest opinion. Thanks to them for the book and Laura Blackman for approaching me.
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader where the author also participated in a Q&A with me.
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A couple of years ago, when mystery writer Brad Parks wrote his first stand-alone thriller, in more than a couple of interviews I heard/read him talk about the struggle getting going. A friend gave him some advice to "write the book that scares you," which would likely scare his readers. He ended up deciding that as a parent, the thing that scared him the most was something involving trauma to one of his kids. Which resulted in at least two different novels ( Say Nothing and Closer than You Know ), both of which provided me with a level of fear I don't usually get from thrillers. I couldn't stop thinking about that anecdote and those two books while I listened to this, did someone give Landweber similar advice?
We start off meeting Lillian, who works in the PR department of Teleportation Services International. She's taking her son's class on a tour of TSI—something she and his teacher had arranged to help him deal with his anxiety about their upcoming trip via Teleportation. Cole is shy, nervous, and not really assured by this exercise—although the rest of his class has a blast (and it sounded pretty fun to me, too).
Then we meet her husband, Jackson. Jackson is one of the few drivers around in 2047—his clientele is primarily made up of the elderly who won't trust self-driving cars (and, yeah, it occurred to me that I'd be one of his client base on both of those counts) and those whose mental health or anxiety issues won't allow them to trust the cars, either. He augments this income by teaching super-rich teens how to drive the smattering of sports cars still around so they can go on joyrides.
TSI gives one employee's family a month a free week's vacation to anywhere in the world—and then milks their experience for publicity. They've picked Tokyo—and none of the family have ever teleported before. This will be a new experience for them all. Lillian steps through the portal in Omaha and stumbles out in Tokyo (the first trip is typically difficult on the destination side). There's a strange delay that worries her, but before long, Jackson comes out in worse shape than her. But where's Cole?
No one has an answer. Cole is missing and no one has an explanation. No one can even begin to hazard a guess about what happened.
Not at all surprisingly, Lillian and Jackson are devastated. Heartbroken. Inconsolable. And their individual reactions are so different that they can't even be there for each other in this time.
Lillian, whose own childhood was marked by tragedy, directs her grief into work. If she can be busy, she can cope. Quickly, her energies are directed into investigating (on her own) what happened that day, and what can be done to prevent it from happening again—and maybe finding a little vengeance along the way.
Jackson's reaction is two-fold. First, he's an alcoholic who hasn't taken a drink in six years. He's not in recovery in any sense, he just stopped drinking to be a father. With Cole gone, he returns to the bottle—any bottle. Before taking that first drink—and after it—his question was, "My son is missing, why isn't anyone looking for him?" For Jackson, Cole isn't dead, he's lost. Jackson knows—he can't convince anyone, but he knows—that he saw something—some place?—in between Omaha and Tokyo. He spends his days going back and forth between the two cities, trying to find that In Between again, before crawling back into a bottle.
They haven't just lost their son, they've lost each other. The love is still there. But they just don't understand the other's reaction. She can't cope with his drinking or his denial. He can't understand why she's given up on Cole. While he hunts for Cole and she hunts for an explanation, they're both burdened, distracted and shaped by this other pain. It is heartbreaking to watch their marriage crumble—as with the Parks thrillers, what happens to Cole is terrifying to this parent. But that feeling was frequently overshadowed by my reaction to his parent's relationship.
Now that I've gone on longer than I intended to about the plot (not that I'm cutting any of it), let's talk about the setting. This is not quite a post-apocalyptic world, but it's one where the apocalypse could be just around the corner. Environmental changes have impacted coastal cities around the world—many of what we know as coastal cities no longer exist. We all know that the Midwest gets hit by huge storms throughout the year, their frequency and intensity have grown. There are changes to transportation (air travel as well as the automobile changes mentioned above) in efforts to reduce pollution. New--and deadly--flu strains crop up with a regularity that makes them seem routine, and everyone knows how to react when one comes along.
There's a lot that could be said about the government (governments?) in this future. Not that Landweber talks about politics at all—but there's a tremendous lack of civil liberties on the one hand, and yet a very laissez-faire stance when it comes to TSI (at least as evidenced by TSI who really only seem to care about customer perception, not any kind of reulatory oversight). There's a benevolent totalitarianism at work when it comes to the storms (and reactions to them) in Nebraska, as well as the medical response to new flu strains.
I want to stress here that these environmental and health elements are just parts of the story, and the government observations are only my impressions, and nothing I could really provide footnotes about. Landweber doesn't take the opportunity to get on a soapbox about any of it, they're just part of the world he's describing. Much in the same way that someone writing a book set in 2020 would talk about current cultural trends, technologies or current events. He doesn't indulge in any real explanation of his world-building, there are no big info dumps—it's all just the setting.
This is an Audible Original—and I should talk about the audio aspect of this. It's a gripping listen and wonderfully performed. As you may have guessed Brittany Pressley narrates the chapters from Lillian's point of view, and Mark Boyett takes Jackson's. I don't think I'd heard anything by either of them before—but I'll keep my eyes peeled for their names when I browse for audiobooks in the future. They truly did wonderful jobs. They got the emotion of the moment, the tension—and occasional moments of fun, joy, or relief—as well as giving a real sense of the characters. It didn't happen often, but even when a character usually only seen in a Lillian chapter showed up in a Jackson, you could recognize them (and vice versa)—which was nice. Landweber wrote a great story but Boyett and Pressley brought it to life.
The last time I listened to an Audible Original, I had trouble with a couple of the SF-y terms used—mostly because I couldn't be sure exactly what the narrator was saying (e.g., was that a "d" or a "b"—or a "g"—in the middle of that word?) It wasn't that I couldn't understand the narrator, they were just terms the author invented that was hard to get my head around. Landweber didn't do any of that, which was a relief—although there were a couple of Japanese names I wouldn't be able to repeat (in print or voice), but I knew what Pressley and Boyett were saying.
Another pair of books that came to mind while I was listening to this were Mike Chen's novels. Like Chen, Landweber creates a wonderful Science Fiction world, and then tells a gripping family drama. Yes, the science fiction elements are there—and are incredibly well-executed—but the heart of this novel is about parenting, marriage, love. Fans of Chen would do well to check this book out. Fans of this book should give Chen a chance.
I read and enjoyed Landweber's last novel, Thursday, 1:17 PM , but this is a much better showcase for his talents (not to knock his earlier work). There's so much to commend about this Audiobook that I have only begun to scratch the surface (truly, I can think of a half-dozen characters I should've profiled*, a couple of themes I could have talked about, and other plotlines I should have addressed). There's something for everyone in this book—an element of a thriller, some great SF Technology, some conspiracy elements, the environmental setting, some media commentary, some Big Business critique, a lot of focus on people with anxiety issues and/or mental health diagnosis, ethical quandaries, parent/child stories, and a touching love story, too.
* There's a hacker character that I'm going to kick myself for not talking about, for example. He's one of the most entertaining characters I've encountered this year—Top 3 for 2020.
Get this into your ears, folks, you won't regret it—you may not like it as much as I did, but I can't imagine you won't like it.
Disclaimer: I received this audiobook from Audible in exchange for this post and my honest opinion. Thanks to them for the book and Laura Blackman for approaching me.
March 20, 2023
Wow. I did not expect this book to be as good as it was. I thought I was in for the disappearance of a child and the disintegration of a marriage. I expected great sadness.
What I did not expect was suspense. And action! I was up all night finishing this because I couldn't go to sleep without knowing what happened. It's edge of your seat stuff. And fortunately didn't descend into a sappy explanation for a solution. No "love solves it all" stuff. That was indeed a part of it, but not the whole.
Actually the ending held some things I hadn't considered. Very cool.
The narration by Brittany Pressley and Mark Boyett was perfect.
What I did not expect was suspense. And action! I was up all night finishing this because I couldn't go to sleep without knowing what happened. It's edge of your seat stuff. And fortunately didn't descend into a sappy explanation for a solution. No "love solves it all" stuff. That was indeed a part of it, but not the whole.
Actually the ending held some things I hadn't considered. Very cool.
The narration by Brittany Pressley and Mark Boyett was perfect.
May 11, 2020
A family was taking a family vacation when the unimaginable happened-- there son, Cole, was lost. Both his mother, Lidia, and his father, Jack deal with the loss in different ways. Lidia tries to find him by joining with others that lost loved ones in a place they call the In Between, and jack tries to travel
each day back and forth hoping to get stuck and land in the place where Cole is. I wish more time was spent in the in between and maybe some chapters of Cole learning about his world. The book came to a very happy ending of some returning to their families and some living out their lives in the In Between. Questions of sustainability and I guess if they are even still alive come to my mind, but are never discussed. So for cool idea, I love this book, for characters, I feel they are too one-dimensional, and for lack of really spending time in a place that the book is named after makes me give it 3 stars.
each day back and forth hoping to get stuck and land in the place where Cole is. I wish more time was spent in the in between and maybe some chapters of Cole learning about his world. The book came to a very happy ending of some returning to their families and some living out their lives in the In Between. Questions of sustainability and I guess if they are even still alive come to my mind, but are never discussed. So for cool idea, I love this book, for characters, I feel they are too one-dimensional, and for lack of really spending time in a place that the book is named after makes me give it 3 stars.
March 30, 2024
Made it through 40% before I gave up. Liked the idea, but the story just plods along at way too slow of a place.
June 4, 2021
Let me start out by saying that Sci Fi isn't my thing, but while this book has plenty of sci fi (it is set in the future and has plenty of tech-y things), it isn't overpowering and doesn't take away from the experience.
It is amazingly prescient for Sci Fi (note it was published in 2019 - this will be significant when you read it) in ways that should give some of us pause.
It nicely ties up all the loose ends (one of my pet peeves about stories is when things are left unsaid or unfinished) and isn't a pat ending.
Having living in Japan, those parts were very enjoyable for me.
Also a note for those who avoid Amazon - Audible gives you one book a month free!
Though as the author is my friend I would encourage you to buy it.
It is amazingly prescient for Sci Fi (note it was published in 2019 - this will be significant when you read it) in ways that should give some of us pause.
It nicely ties up all the loose ends (one of my pet peeves about stories is when things are left unsaid or unfinished) and isn't a pat ending.
Having living in Japan, those parts were very enjoyable for me.
Also a note for those who avoid Amazon - Audible gives you one book a month free!
Though as the author is my friend I would encourage you to buy it.
March 14, 2020
I was intrigued when I read about this book. The idea that you could actually BE somewhere - while in midst of teleporting - and get stuck there. I purchased the book at audible.com and started to listen.
But the storytelling just couldn´t live up to the idea. It very quickly became a bit predictable and not that interesting. Sorry Mr. Landweber.
And the idea of having TWO narrators swapping each chapter - doing his, and her parts was okay, but again - then there were parts where chapters were with both mother and father, kind of made the double narrator idea a bit flat.
But the book got three stars from me - because I like the IDEA of it.
But the storytelling just couldn´t live up to the idea. It very quickly became a bit predictable and not that interesting. Sorry Mr. Landweber.
And the idea of having TWO narrators swapping each chapter - doing his, and her parts was okay, but again - then there were parts where chapters were with both mother and father, kind of made the double narrator idea a bit flat.
But the book got three stars from me - because I like the IDEA of it.
April 6, 2020
This book, which is set in 2047, started off interesting. The point of view alternates between a husband and wife whose son vanishes while teleporting. The spouses handle the disappearance differently. The middle portion of the book dragged a bit and several scenes just seemed pointless. I was thinking I would only give it three stars. Then the plot became clear and the last third was fabulous. Lots of suspense and interesting descriptions.
There were some eerie references to “historical” events that occur between present day and 2047.
The ending was awesome and there was good closure with the characters.
Brittany Pressley and Mark Boyett did an excellent job on the narration.
There were some eerie references to “historical” events that occur between present day and 2047.
The ending was awesome and there was good closure with the characters.
Brittany Pressley and Mark Boyett did an excellent job on the narration.
September 16, 2023
A mediocre book on all accounts. A Mediocre plot, mediocre concept, mediocre writing. Too many deus ex machina moments make the whole story feel too tailored and unrealistic (if you can use this term on a sci-fi story).
January 31, 2024
The author goes to great lengths to develop the characters yet they fall in the familiar categories- immoral capitalist, naive inventor, level chief of security. They are still better written than many characters in genre literature. The story started better than it ended.
3.5
3.5
March 30, 2020
I truly enjoyed this book!
April 28, 2020
couldnt put it down.
July 3, 2020
found it an original science fiction action drama. good pace. won't spoil. very worthy read for the genre.
the audible version is very well performed.
the audible version is very well performed.
July 4, 2020
Really engaging teleportation story. SciFi story, but reads like a contemporary fiction with amazing narration.
January 21, 2021
Very interesting story - for sure needed the science to be cleaner, but still a fun read
June 21, 2021
I really enjoyed this book, such an interesting premise. I can't wait to read more by Landweber
July 25, 2021
Not bad. I wish the epilogue would have gone back on a bit longer and in more detail. Also wanted more time in the actual in between.
August 14, 2023
I am pleasantly intrigued with the core premise which takes me through a fantastic ride, as well as the emotional spin as parents is well related too.
December 10, 2024
Fun bit of escapism into a futuristic world of teleportation!
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